October 2, 2006

Music: Savage Garden Affirmation
Reading: Introduction to Sophocles' Antigone
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 7.5
Quote:

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Its contemplation makes us out as small
As a brief epidemic of microbes
That in a good glass may be seen to crawl
The patina of this the least of globes.
But have we there the advantage after all?
You were belittled into vilest worms
God hardly tolerated with his feet;
Which comes to the same thing in different terms.
We both are the belittled human race,
One as compared with God and one with space.
I had thought ours the more profound disgrace;
But doubtless this was only my conceit.
The cloister and the observatory saint
Take comfort in about the same complaint.
So science and religion really meet.
- "The Lesson For Today," Robert Frost

Good things that happened today:
1. Lunch with Jason.
2. Got back to work at the public service center!
3. Dat gave me a pillow for my chair! Now it is all soft and cushy, not hard and uncomfortable! Yaaaaay!
4. Ice cream for dessert with dinner.
5. Tried Honeybush tea (from Numi). It was pretty good.